Uh-oh: Bush had Double Coalition Partners in Iraq than Obama in Libya

 Remember all of the talk of a 'unilateralist' foreign policy directed from the White House when George W. Bush led the calls against Iraq. Well, now that we're involved in a war against Libya with a war detractor in the White House, we'd be abandoning our go-it-alone approach?

Not quite. Looking at a list from the State Department, we can see that while our cause is just today (as it was in 2003 in Iraq) we don't have nearly the foreign support. Where's the multilateralism!?

Coalition Countries - Iraq - 2003
Afghanistan
Albania
Australia
Azerbaijan
Bulgaria
Colombia
Czech Republic
Denmark
El Salvador
Eritrea
Estonia
Ethiopia
Georgia
Hungary
Italy
Japan
South Korea
Latvia
Lithuania
Macedonia
Netherlands
Nicaragua
Philippines
Poland
Romania
Slovakia
Spain
Turkey
United Kingdom
Uzbekistan
[Source: US State Department]

Coalition - Libya - 2011
United States
France
United Kingdom
Italy
Canada
Belgium
Denmark
Norway
Qatar
Spain
Greece
Germany
Poland
Jordan
Morocco
United Arab Emirates

And the Iraq list is incomplete. It does not include supporters of the war that did not make material contributions, like Jordan, Israel, Finland and Saudi Arabia.

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